Dragon with clouds around surrounded by Tibetan characters.
Obverse script
Tibetan
Obverse lettering
ཤོན་
ཐོང་ བོད་ཀྱི་རིན་ ཀྱི་ རིན་ ཁོར་ ཁུ་ ཕོན་ ཞོ་དོ་ (Translation: shon thong bod kyi rin khor khu phon zho do Xuantong / Precious coin of two Sho, (struck) to the Kuping Standard)
Reverse description
Four Chinese ideograms read top to bottom, right to left with lotus flower in the centre.
Reverse script
Chinese (traditional, regular
script)
Reverse lettering
宣
藏 通
統 (Translation: Xuan Tong Bao Cang Xuantong (Emperor) / Tibetan coin)